KINGSTON – With on­ly one game of their One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against Sri Lan­ka be­ing played, West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Shai Hope has stressed the im­por­tance of the up­com­ing five-match se­ries against New Zealand to­wards the re­gion­al team au­to­mat­i­cal­ly qual­i­fy­ing for the 2027 ICC World Cup.

Trinidad and To­ba­go darts rep­re­sen­ta­tives Joshua Bal­four and James Walk­lin de­part­ed for Frank­furt, Ger­many, where they are set to make his­to­ry as the first pair to rep­re­sent the twin-is­land re­pub­lic at the 2026 BetVic­tor World Cup of Darts.

The world is brac­ing for a mas­sive sum­mer of sport­ing dra­ma. While a large share of glob­al at­ten­tion is locked on the build-up and spec­ta­cle of the up­com­ing FI­FA Men’s World Cup in the USA, Cana­da, and Mex­i­co from June 12 to Ju­ly 19, Eng­land and Wales will host the 10th edi­tion of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup from June 12 to Ju­ly 5, 2026. This tour­na­ment is primed to keep the rev­o­lu­tion in women’s crick­et rolling with an all-round demon­stra­tion of the high-qual­i­ty skills of the mod­ern game.

​Shantel Adams, the new face of women’s box­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go, is bask­ing in the glo­ry of a first-round vic­to­ry over Venezue­lan Hei­di Guar­iguan in Cara­cas on Fri­day.

KINGSTON – The Ja­maica Em­press has been re­vealed as the fourth team to com­pete in this year’s Women’s Caribbean Pre­mier League (WC­PL).

HAM­BAN­TO­TA – An­jala Ban­dara’s su­perb, un­beat­en cen­tu­ry led an im­pres­sive fight­back by Sri Lan­ka Emerg­ing Play­ers against the West In­dies Acad­e­my on the open­ing day of their first un­of­fi­cial ‘Test’ in Sri Lan­ka on Mon­day.

CARDIFF – Bhar­ti Ful­mali scored a half-cen­tu­ry and Shreyan­ka Patil grabbed four wick­ets to guide In­dia Women to a com­fort­able 26-run vic­to­ry over West In­dies Women in their warm-up match in Wales on Mon­day, ahead of the start of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.

Jereem "The Dream" Richards de­liv­ered a sea­son’s best (SB) time of 44.87 sec­onds in the men’s 400-me­tre fi­nal to land the bronze medal in Sun­day’s Di­a­mond League event in Stock­holm, Swe­den. The re­sult fell nice­ly in line with the favourable start he has had this year and could sig­nal a build-up to much larg­er things in the fu­ture.

T&T se­nior women’s team net­ball goal-shoot­er Saman­tha Wal­lace-Joseph was un­stop­pable as she scored a com­bined 60 goals to lead three-time cham­pi­ons Lough­bor­ough Light­ning to a dom­i­nant 77-57 over Not­ting­ham For­est dur­ing the Soft & Gen­tle mi­nor semi­fi­nal in the Eng­land Net­ball Su­per League at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre at the Co-op Live Are­na in Lon­don on Saturday.

CAS­TRIES, Saint Lu­cia – Deputy Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of CARI­COM, Dr Arm­strong Alex­is has thrown his full sup­port be­hind both Haiti and Cu­ra­cao ahead of the up­com­ing FI­FA World Cup.

KINGSTON – West In­dies fast bowler Shamar Joseph will miss the third and fi­nal One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) against Sri Lan­ka in Jami­a­ca on Mon­day.

There is no point pre­tend­ing. De­feats and heavy blows are nev­er good for any foot­ball na­tion. They are nev­er good for a brand, a rep­u­ta­tion or the im­age you are try­ing to re­build.